User:SP-KP/Wikipedia Topics

For beginners

• About Wikipedia and Wikipedia's "Welcome newcomers" page
• Finding your way around - the Main Page, a random article, the Category Browser, info about searching Wikipedia and about the What links here facility
• Contributing to Wikipedia - information about editing pages, starting new pages, two tutorials (on Editing, policy, conduct, and structure and Pictures)
• User accounts: Why create a user account?, usernames and logging in
• Some basic info about some other Wikipedia features: talk pages, categories
• The glossary for beginners
• Wikipedia's basic information category page
• The Wikipedia policy trifecta, The Five Pillars of Wikipedia and Wikipedia's simplified ruleset
• First steps and second steps
• A page about the Wikipedia sandbox, and the sandbox itself

<-- have read everything up to here

• Wikipedia:Your first article
• Wikipedia:Overview FAQ

Background reading

• A Wikipedia article about Encyclopaedias (and one about Almanacs), one about Collaborative writing, one about Wikis and one specifically about Wikipedia.
• Who writes Wikipedia and a discussion of Wikipedian psychology
• Copyleft, Free content, Open content and Wikipedia's approach - copyrights in Wikipedia and the GNU Free Documentation Licence (the text of which is here)
• The Wikipedia General disclaimer
• What is an article?
• Why Wikipedia is so great, Why Wikipedia is not so great, a Wikipedia article about Criticism of Wikipedia and replies to common objections
• How to write a great article and The perfect article
• Uncyclopedia

Policies and Guidelines

An introduction is at this page: policies and guidelines and all relevant material is in the category Wikipedia policies and guidelines

Policies:

• What Wikipedia is not and Wikipedia is not a dictionary
• Neutral Point of View (see also the NPOV tutorial)
• Civility, and policies on personal attacks and legal threats
• Editing policy
• Wikipedia's "No original research" policy, and policy on verifiability
• Ownership of articles, protection of pages and the three-revert rule
• Naming conventions (see also Naming conventions for animals and Tree of Life project page)
• Image use and logos
• Deletion, Speedy deletion criteria, Categories for deletion and Deletion of vanity articles and Undeletion
• Dispute resolution and Arbitration policy
• Blocking policy, Banning policy and sock puppets
• Account deletion
• Wikipedia's Privacy policy

Guidelines on accountability, assuming good faith, being bold, centralised discussions and their conclusions, consensus, disambiguation, disrupting Wikipedia to make a point, edit summaries, fiction, the one-revert rule, copies of primary sources, reverts, signing posts on talk pages, stubs, subpages, talk page usage, user pages, vanity, wikiquette

The Wikipedia Manual of Style (read), and style guides on Citing sources, controversial articles

Or you could Ignore all rules

Comprehensive Reference Resources

• the full set of Frequently Asked Questions pages
• the full Wikipedia glossary
• the help directory and help category
• the contacts us listings
• the Style and How-to Directory
• the Topical index
• the Help desk

Categorisation, lists and series

• A proposal regarding Categories, lists, and series boxes
• Categories: the basic information page, help page, categorisation guideline page, FAQ, alphabetical category listing and the fundamental categories page
• An article on lists and one on incomplete lists
• Articles on article series and incumbent series
• The Lists that should be categories category

How to...

• Cleanup templates
• Wikipedia:How to log in
• Merging, redirecting, and renaming pages and Wikipedia:How to rename (move) a page
• Navigational templates
• Reverting a page to an earlier version
• Tables
• Wikipedia:Template messages
• Upload files

Graphical content

• Wikipedia:Picture tutorial
• Wikipedia:Extended image syntax
• Wikipedia:Uploading images
• Wikipedia:Image use policy
• Wikipedia:Image description page
• Wikipedia:Image copyright tags
• m:Help:Images and other uploaded files
• Wikipedia:Graphics tutorials
• Wikipedia:How to create graphs for Wikipedia articles

Miscellaneous A-Z

• Admin
• Avoiding common mistakes
• Barnstars
• Categories
• Deletion: Articles for deletion and Votes for undeletion
• Wikipedia:Edit conflicts and Wikipedia:Edit war
• Headings
• New pages
• List of protected pages
• Requested articles
• Wikipedia skins
• Spoken Wikipedia
• Staying cool when the editing gets hot
• Titles
• Vandalism: Wikipedia vandalism, Vandalism in progress and administrator intervention against vandalism
• Writers' rules of engagement

Add the following in too, to make the above more comprehensive

• Wikimedia, Help:Contents, Wikipedia:Projects, Wikipedia:Featured articles, Wikipedia:Mediawiki, Wikipedia:Talk page, Wikipedia:Village pump, Meta-wiki, Wikipedia:Bug report, Wikipedia:Friends of Wikipedia, Wikipedia:Other projects similar to Wikipedia, Wikipedia:Category schemes, Wikipedia:Glossary, Wikipedia:Avoiding common mistakes, Wikipedia:Guide to writing better articles, Wikipedia:Guide to improving articles, Wikipedia:Your first article, Category:Wikipedia proposals, Wikipedia:User categorisation, Wikipedia:Disambiguation pages with links, Wikipedia:WikiProject Red Link Recovery, Wikipedia:Cite sources, Wikipedia:Edit summary legend, Wiki, Wikipedia:Protected page, Wikipedia:What is an article, Wikipedia:Canonicalization, Wikipedia:Piped link, Wikipedia:Namespace, Help:Special characters, Wikipedia:Guide to layout, Wikipedia:Boilerplate text, Wikipedia:Annotated article, stuff in the Wikipedia:Style and How-to Directory, Wikipedia:Sandbox, Wikipedia:Bootcamp, Wikipedia:Wikipedians, and stuff about Wikiportals

• Wikipedia:Manual of Style (pronunciation), Wikipedia:Technical terms and definitions, Wikipedia:Section, Wikipedia:Manual of Style (dates and numbers), Wikipedia:Guide to writing better articles, Wikipedia:Lists, Wikipedia:Disputed statement, Wikipedia:Manual of Style (spelling), Wikipedia:Picture tutorial, Wikipedia:Captions, Wikipedia:Annotated article, Wikipedia:Avoiding common mistakes, Wikipedia:Cite sources, Wikipedia:WikiProject

• Wikipedia:Template messages/Sources of articles/Generic citations

• Wikipedia:Edit conflicts, Wikipedia:Template messages, Wikipedia:Edit summary, Wikipedia:Annotated article, Wikipedia:Section, Wikipedia:Namespace, Wikipedia:Disambiguation, Wikipedia:Category, Complete list of Wikimedia projects, Wikipedia:What's in, what's out, Wikipedia:Criteria for inclusion of biographies, Wikipedia:Autobiography, Wikipedia:How to rename (move) a page, Wikipedia:Watchlist help, Wikipedia:Village pump, Wikipedia:Administrators, Wikipedia:User page, Wikipedia:Project namespace

And more

• Faux pas avoidance helps you avoid some common mistakes.
• Looking for other ways to improve articles? See Wikipedia:Guide to improving articles.
• Examples of some of Wikipedia's best articles, based on these criteria.

• Wikipedia:How to use tables is a tutorial on the use of tables.
• Help:Formula is a list of the markup symbols we use.

• Wikipedia:How to edit a page gives lots of information on things like formatting, character sets, and variables.
• Wikipedia:How to start a page
• Wikipedia:Manual of Style
• Wikipedia:Annotated article

• Wikipedia:Community Portal provides links to community resources—this page is always available in the navigation sidebar.

• Wikipedia:Utilities — a bigger directory of project pages than the community portal.
• Wikipedia:Topical index — if you want a really complete index.

• MediaWiki User's Guide — a user's guide for the MediaWiki software that Wikipedia runs on.
• Wikipedia:Article size

Pronunciation, Peer review

• Wikipedia:Namespace, Wikipedia:How to archive a talk page, Wikipedia:Refactoring talk pages, Wikipedia:Wikipedians, Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not, Wikipedia:Emailing users, Wikipedia:Maintenance,

encouraging others to get involved Wikipedia:Naming conventions (categories) Wikipedia:Contribute what you know or are willing to learn more about Wikipedia:Watchlist help Wikipedia:Requests for adminship Category:Wikipedia FAQs Category:Wikipedia features Wikipedia:Changing username Special:Preferences Wikipedia:Requests for comment m:Single signon transition

Wikipedia:Google test Wikipedia:Village pump Wikipedia:Redirect

Template:Please leave this line alone Wikipedia:Bootcamp Wikipedia:Introduction Wikipedia:Museum projects Wikipedia:School and university projects Wikipedia:School and university projects - instructions for teachers and lecturers Wikipedia:School and university projects - instructions for students

m:Don't be a dick m:Polls are evil m:Instruction creep

Wikipedia:Lamest edit wars ever, Wikipedia:List of bad article ideas, Wikipedia:Harmonious editing club, m:Foundation issues Wikipedia:WikiProject Countering systemic bias

Wikipedia:Wikipedia as an academic source Wikipedia:Citing Wikipedia Wikipedia:WikiProject Wikipedians against censorship User:R. fiend/How many articles does Wikipedia really have? Wikipedia:Unusual articles

Wikipedia:Meta

Wikipedia:Interlanguage links